House of Lords should be half the size, says Commons Speaker

Bercow said it was ‘patently absurd that the House of Lords is significantly larger than the House of Commons’.The House of Lords should halve in size, John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, has said in a rare foray into political opinion during which he also argued for a longer weekly prime minister’s questions.This point, Bercow argued, was not made “in a sprit of machismo, or personal or institutional pride, still less willy waving”, but only as the Commons is the ele